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True Blood and Philosophy
By: George A. Dunn, Rebecca Housel & William Irwin
Narrated by: Arielle DeLisle
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Teeming with complex, mythical characters in the shape of vampires, telepaths, shapeshifters, and the like, True Blood, the popular HBO series adapted from Charlaine Harris's bestselling Southern Vampire Mysteries, has a rich collection of themes to explore, from sex and romance to bigotry and violence to death and immortality. The goings-on in... Read more
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The New Tycoons
By: Jason Kelly
Narrated by: Brett Barry
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Private Equity firms, once tight-knit partnerships, have broadened their reach substantially, building or acquiring other businesses, from giving mergers advice to managing hedge funds, to underwriting stock and bond offerings. The majority have gone public, offering stock to retail investors, ensuring steady access to more money, and... Read more
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Living for the Weekday
By: Clint Swindall
Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Clints last book, Engaged Leadership, was a business fable about the importance of companies and managers in building and maintaining a culture of employee engagement, recognizing that companies who foster environments for their employees where the employees feel so content and motivated to be at work that they become more committed and... Read more
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Endless Appetites
By: Alan Bjerga
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Food security, the availability of food and reasonable access to it, has become one of the hottest topics of the year, growing in importance with every spike in agricultural commodity prices, of which there have been many since 2007. While 2010 prices rises have not been as severe as 2007 and 2008, they are still up double-digits with grain up... Read more
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The Leader's Guide to Storytelling
By: Stephen Denning
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A Leaders Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few available ways to handle the principal and most difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using tons of examples and how-to techniques, Denning explains how you can learn to tell the... Read more
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Answering the Ultimate Question
By: Laura L. Brooks & Richard Owen
Narrated by: Melissa Edris
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
"Would you recommend this company to your friends and colleagues?" That's the ultimate question. Fred Reichheld's book of the same name created quite a stir in 2006. Reichheld is co-founder along with Owen and Brooks of the methodology behind answering the question. The original book challenged the conventional wisdom of customer... Read more
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The Leader's Guide to Radical Management
By: Stephen Denning
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on research conducted over several years with hundreds of high-performance teams, this book is the first to identify what it takes to create high-performance teams. Denning breaks these elements down into three categories. First, there are the hygiene elements of teams that make up the traditional management literature on teams. These... Read more
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The Golden Rule
By: Jim Gibbons
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Gold has always had an appeal to investors but many people believe that it is difficult and overly risk. In fact, there are a variety of ways to invest in goldfrom mining stocks to buying gold coins and bars, etc. Gold has appreciated some 16% against the US dollar over the past 8 years. In addition, in many parts of the world, actual gold is... Read more
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The Ultimate Dividend Playbook
By: Josh Morningstar, Inc. & Peters
Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this book, the author will equip the individual investor for financial success through dividends. He will separate the topic broadly into three elements: income, information, and independence. Most any investor will be familiar with the income aspect--who can argue with a check in the mail? The elements of information (that dividends convey... Read more
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Finding the Uncommon Deal
By: Adam Leitman Bailey
Narrated by: Bruce Lorie
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Great real estate deals are like worms. To find the really prize ones, you should be prepared to get your hands dirty. You usually cannot see them until you do some digging, but often, once you start, several will appear. On most uncommon deals, the seller found out about them through local information and chatting up the right people not... Read more
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Beyond Dealmaking
By: Melanie Billings-Yun
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Getting to yes is not the same as getting results. The business landscape of the 21st century has fundamentally changed. As our choice of suppliers, markets, employers, and partners has proliferated, businesses can no longer stay on top by negotiating short-term victories. Nor can any organization hope to navigate this complex economy by... Read more
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Investing in Resources
By: Adrian Day
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 13 hours
Abridged: No
The book looks at the factors affecting investing in resource markets that are different from other sectors--the extremely cyclicality; the very long cycles; the huge corrections that are standard; the continual mergers and acquisitions; huge capital needs and how that affects company (and stock) cycles. In today's economy, the resource... Read more
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Winning Across Global Markets
By: Dan Steinbock
Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Winning Across Global Markets examines how 145-year old Nokia grew from a small paper mill in Finland to a multinational telecommunications leader. Why are Nokia's globalization lessons so critical across industries and worldwide? While most large multinational companies enjoy inherent advantages in which their home... Read more
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Unleashing the Power of IT
By: Dan Roberts
Narrated by: Tom Schiff
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Unleashing the Power of IT Bringing People, Business, and Technology Together describes in actionable detail, the new mindset, skill set, and tool set that are necessary for today's IT leaders to thrive in today's challenging environment. While other IT leadership books preach the latest theories, models, and fads (often at the safety of... Read more
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The Scientific American Brave New Brain
By: Judith Horstman & Scientific American
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Brave New Brain presents incredible projections into the future from the technological reality of now, including *Current wireless thought controlled proesthetic devices that allow our thoughts controlling everything from the garage door to our computer *Recently revealed brainscans that show where and how we experience emotions like... Read more
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Branded!
By: Bernie Brennan & Lori Schafer
Narrated by: Mark Ashby
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Social media is having a major impact on marketing. It is the glue that leverages the consumers views and opinions across all elements of a retailers business. Retailers are becoming aware that social media offers promising ways they can benefit from it, such as improving brand awareness, listening to consumer sentiments, creating... Read more
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Ultimate Lost and Philosophy
By: William Irwin & Sharon Kaye
Narrated by: John McCormick
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Lost is more than just a popular television show; it's a complex examination of meaningful philosophical questions. What does good versus evil mean on the island? Is it a coincidence that characters John Locke and Desmond David Hume are named after actual philosophers? What is the ethics of responsibility for Jack?
An action-adventure story... Read more
The Biker's Guide to Business
By: Dwain M. DeVille
Narrated by: Dwain DeVille
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The Bikers Guide to Business uses Devilles successful Navigation Process to enable readers to develop their own interactive, step-by-step action plan that starts with their unique vision for success. From that vision, readers will tailor a roadmap to meet their specific needs and develop a realistic, sustainable plan leading them where... Read more
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How To Sell Your Way Through Life
By: Napoleon Hill
Narrated by: A. C. Fellner
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Napoleon Hill wrote that the book's purpose is to convey practical information that is known to be sound because it was obtained from the life experiences of hundreds of successful sales people who began at scratch and made for themselves enviable positions in the world. For this reason, he wrote the book should be a handbook of every... Read more
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Eating the Big Fish
By: Adam Morgan
Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Eating the Big Fish remains the only and definitive study on how challenger brands succeed in business. It has sold close to 50,000 copies and become enormously influential in the marketplace. This new edition will explore new brands, new challengers, new media, and changes to the environment since the original edition released in 1999. Read more
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Lombard Street
By: Walter Bagehot
Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Lombard Street in London is the original district of finance, the birthplace of the money market, and the model for Wall Street. This 1873 classic endeavors to explain the money market to investors - from the theory of a national reserve to the principles of credit and lending. This book chronicles the history and purpose of Lombard Street, the... Read more
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The New Financial Deal
By: William D. Cohan & David Skeel
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
What can we expect from our eras New Deal? To answer this question, The New Financial Deal will begin with an inside account of the legislative process, then outline and access its key components: the new framework for regulating derivatives, the regulation of banking and systemic risk, and the new resolution regime. It will explain the... Read more
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The Story of Purpose
By: Joey Reiman
Narrated by: Joey Reiman
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Some ideas are bigger than others, and the master idea--your company's purpose--is the biggest. When Nike said Just Do It, the company put a voice to the belief that humans have no limits, and when Disney reminded people the power of wishing upon a star, they instantly founded the idea that life is magical. Whether its leadership to... Read more
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Painless Presentations
By: Lenny Laskowski
Narrated by: Lenny Laskowski
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
No Sweat Presentations offers a simple road map to the world of professional presentations. Lenny Lakowskis 35 years of expertise from delivering over 2,700 programs world-wide to clients in over 178 countries is provided in this simple-to-read book. His No Sweat guide is for speakers who are beginning their journey into the world of... Read more
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